Example sentences of "use it for " in BNC.
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| 1 | I used it for areas hard to reach with chisel and mallet , and expect that when carving delicate work it has the advantage of not disturbing the workpiece with sudden strikes . |
| 2 | Yet the new role of emperor was held in control by Charles who used it for his own ends , which were often of the highest order and extended far beyond mere materialism . |
| 3 | But there were plenty of beautiful and recognisable faces to be seen amongst the anonymous , but none-the-less powerful , fashion editors , still enough buying power in this room alone to rock empires , even if no house made a profit from the couture but rather used it for a loss-leading advertisement and a mark of prestige . |
| 4 | I used it for New Blues and almost all of Summer Song and perhaps the solo on Rubina 's Blue Sky Happiness . |
| 5 | I liked it so much that I used it for the show and played the hell out of it , it sounded so good . |
| 6 | It should be remembered that Hadley Wood tunnel and the East Coast main line was a favourite haunt of the Deltics that used it for almost all of their working life , so it is not surprising that one of their number should reappear on its familiar route . |
| 7 | Approaching the signal box he mounted the steps , the hand-rail creaking as he used it for support . |
| 8 | Egyptians used it for embalming their dead , the Mesopotamians used it as perfume and the Romans thought it was an aphrodisiac . |
| 9 | I 've had great fun and great service from the package and used it for designing several garments for both hand and machine knitting . |
| 10 | The Department of Transportation in Maryland , for example , used it for an interactive touch-screen system providing tourists with video , textual , graphical and audio information about the city and its transport network . |
| 11 | A thickly built oak and beechwood sixteenth-seventeenth century refectory table from the Pyrenees , admittedly characterful ( Tajan 's auction staff used it for stacking their telephones on ) but more than difficult to place in a modern apartment , sold for FFr650,000 ( £67,550 ; $117,500 ) , over twice its high estimate . |
| 12 | It followed the line of the narrow belt of Purbeck ‘ marble ’ to Peveril , where the Romans first used it for monuments such as the inscribed memorials discovered at Silchester and Colchester . |
| 13 | What was once the abbey 's guest-house had been increasing in size and grandeur as successive monarchs used it for their Edinburgh residence . |
| 14 | The Chinese , who used ivory for elaborately carved handles and vessels as early as the Shang dynasty and in later times used it for a wide variety of personal items such as brush pots , wrist-rests , boxes , seals , snuff boxes and fans , had increasingly to import the material as the elephant herds in the southern provinces diminished . |
| 15 | The fisheries of the Suli islands between North Borneo and the Philippines , though not particularly rich in pearls , produced fine mother-of-pearl , a material keenly sought by the Chinese who used it for making inlays . |
| 16 | I pointed out that the ground was once part of Tip Farm and that on rainy days Bob Crudge still used it for artificial insemination . |
| 17 | He had one made up , used it for the first time in the 1989 Jersey Open and finished joint fifth , 5-under par and only two behind play-off victor Christy O'Connor Jnr . |
| 18 | Red Indians used it for nappies , and J&J might just follow in their tracks — encouraging us to flush the bog down the bog , as it were ? |
| 19 | Lord Hulton was a devotee of May and Baker 's Propamidine Cream and used it for all minor cuts and grazes in his cattle . |
| 20 | ‘ Just a long stone room but legend has it that the Templars used it for their mysteries . |
| 21 | The new Black Basalt developed by Wedgwood was fine-grained , smooth , and richer in hue , and he used it for relief plaques , busts , medallions and cameos , as well as ‘ useful wares ’ for table and fine vases . |
| 22 | Melcarek and Brown then used it for a study of the effects of chill stress on both prompt and delayed fluorescence . |
| 23 | Searle was a rogue and used it for his own purposes . |
| 24 | UN relief flights to Juba — known as " Operation Lifeline Sudan " — were halted temporarily on July 21 , after Sudanese government troops had boarded a UN plane and used it for one week to transport troops and military equipment . |
| 25 | An ancient animal with 5 per cent of an eye might indeed have used it for something other than sight , but it seems to me at least as likely that it used it for 5 per cent vision . |
| 26 | The taxi bill arose after he opened an account for Nalgo with Mersey Cabs without authorisation and used it for his own personal use as well as official business . |
| 27 | THE French count who is to marry the Princess of Wales ' stepmother , Raine , Countess of Spencer , said yesterday he felt ‘ totally abused ’ by people who rented his chateau then used it for a porn film . |
| 28 | ‘ We used it for shirting in 1992 and we 're using it in blends with linen for suitings for spring 1993 . ’ |
| 29 | but er I was the only one that ever used it and I used it about once or twice and then , like like , I used it for about |
| 30 | So he converted his barn which was huge and he used it for recitals , put a lovely grand piano in it . |